Sometimes you have to shake things up a little bit.

Last March, you said that you had concerns about cutting end strength and what that was doing to stress on the force.

Do you agree that China remains a pacing threat as identified in our National Defense Strategy?

I believe firmly that it was the understanding of this committee and the full committee that there was only temporal relief for that 10 carrier air wing requirement.

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

It seems like to me you can't do addition by subtraction. This seems to be grossly irresponsible and completely--completely denies the reality of what we are facing.

I'd love to get some details on that if you all have it because we could protect the guys across the aisle who don't necessarily want to see massive increases in the budget.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to echo your accolades for Phil.

I would like to discuss the management of the design and construction of ammunition infrastructure.

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Phil MacNaughton has been incredible.

I argue that the tide is potentially starting to turn in what the Ukrainians are able to do to the Russians.

We assess that they do retain a desire to attack us in our homeland here in the United States.

The growing presence of China and Russia in Africa is a threat to our national security.

I think it is certainly in the Houthis' best interest to cut a deal.

It is concerning to me, not just the dynamic that is happening between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, but the support that Iran is providing to Yemen.

I believe that the Houthis have an opportunity, should they choose to negotiate, but under prompting from their Iranian masters, they have instead chosen to double down.

That is incredibly troubling.

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I think that's incredibly important, especially as we see this increasing aggressive behavior, obviously with Russia's attack but also with China.

In fact, I have NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] Langley right on the edge of the district, and for years they did great hypersonic research there.

Beginning about 6 years ago, for some reason, somebody thought, well, let's just stop funding hypersonic research because we really don't need to do that.

I think your observation that we have to be resilient and we have to use both kinetic and non-kinetic means to be able to deter are incredibly important across the spectrum.

It follows then as certain as the night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.